| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Balaam, Queen of Sheba, Solomon; bases of left embrasure figures, right portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | Detail of bases (from left) of figures of Balaam, Queen of Sheba, and Solomon (jamb of Old Testament portal in north transept). Balaam's base is a small ass. The Queen of Sheba's base is an Ethiopian, a black man with a money sack and vessel. Solomon's base is a figure that may represent Marculfus the Fool extracting a thorn. Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1204-1210 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale de Chartres
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Chartres
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Numbers 22-24
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| Person as Subject: | Balaam (Biblical figure)
Queen of Sheba (Biblical figure)
Solomon, King of Israel (Biblical figure)
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| General Subject: | Asses
Ethiopians
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71E331
11I63(SHEBA)
11I62(SOLOMON)
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14N,001 C7a
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26379
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | Chartres Cathedral; Balaam, Queen of Sheba, Solomon; bases of left embrasure figures, right portal, north transept, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26379 [retrieved January 21, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26379
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:26:27
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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